Comments on: One-hit-wonder rapper earns her PhD, makes Warner Music pay for it!

By: john

john — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:32:52 +0000

Great story…I had friends that were cheated by CBS records back in the 80′s. Way to stick it back to them. You go girl…

By: jeroen

jeroen — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:06:37 +0000

Rooooo-xanne
sha-a-a-a-a-nte
(Biz markie doing the human beatbox)

Hell yeah!

By: Guyver

Guyver — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:04:57 +0000

6, The girl got what she deserved because she took responsibility for herself and didn’t ask the government for a handout.

By: orangetiki

orangetiki — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:45:52 +0000

oops I just realized I cussed. Feel free to change it to “sheet” sorry. I was just too happy for Roxanne

By: orangetiki

orangetiki — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:45:16 +0000

Oh hell yeah Roxanne Shante was my shit back in the day.

And if you haven’t heard her music before…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsaepyi8MR0

Now you know

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:19:06 +0000

Seriously she could keep getting PhDs until she dies and the label would have to pay for them all. Guinness said the record is eight. She only has eight more to go. I am glad she was able to get what was coming too her. Most musicians don’t.

Record labels are crooks and the only way that artist can make money is to get their own CDs pressed and distribute them themselves at concerts and stuff. My friend’s band got a contract with a record label and it basically said that the band would have to pay back the label if it didn’t make money. Needless to say they didn’t sign it.

If book authors got contracts with terms as bad as music artists, then no one would write books for publishing companies. Self publishing would have become a lot more prevalent. The tighter the record labels squeeze, the more musicians and music fans slip out of their hands.

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:21:34 +0000

#23, Uncle P,

I suspect there are quite a few more people with similar contracts. As they were minors this would have been a way to get the parents signature. And I doubt very much that there were many artists that ever took advantage of this clause.

By: Uncle Patso

Uncle Patso — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:42:21 +0000

COOL!

Which was the dummy in _that_ “dummy contract?”

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:11:38 +0000

consider Warner Music “Gitmo Nation Entertainment Industry” many friiends/ artists have gone in and never saw the light of day again!

By: TThor

TThor — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:01:21 +0000

Perfect – a very smart lady indeed. And a good kick in the balls of a very cynical record industry. Why on earth should we support those bastards?
I wish a shift of paradigm, that we come full circle, the record industry dies and that ‘something’ take over where the creator benefits and there are no leeches anymore. The internet has all what it takes as far as distribution goes. What channel can be created to secure old and new artists quality channel? For starters, the current music providers should drop their labels, and meet their audience in live performances, and not expect to be paid zillion of dollars as in the past if they are among the 5 – 10 big sellers… John C. wrote more than one excellent article about that 5 – 6 years ago I recall. Now, who will be the smart guy to create the new platform?

By: lens42

lens42 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:40:10 +0000

#7…..and how many PhDs do you have?

By: Hugh Ripper

Hugh Ripper — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:38:11 +0000

#18 Bobbo

I would go so far as to say you are right, only that I agree.

Too many people think they can live outside of society, just taking the bits that they want and leaving the mess for someone else. There is room for the individual in society but the price for that is social responsibility.

By: bobbo, I must be right then

bobbo, I must be right then — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:56:36 +0000

#15–thanks Hugh. I would think most people would kinda agree with that post as it starts but then I should lose more and more as they read and then lose everyone when they catch the nom-de-post. Please don’t voice your concurrence too often. It will only make me crazy.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:28:31 +0000

So where was the RIAA? Since they care so much at recording artists and their right’s, you’d think they would have been filing lawsuit after lawsuit in her behalf against Warner.

By: Cap'nKangaroo

Cap'nKangaroo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:31:15 +0000

It is not only the record labels that ripe off artists. I seem to remember that James Garner took a piece of the NET profits from “The Rockford Files”. Trying to figure out how the show was always in the red, he got people to look at the books of the production company. The accounting shenanigans were unreal. Five figures for a stack of empty cardboard boxes for a car to drive thru. Not including any labor or filming expenses, just for the purchase of the boxes.